Iâ€™d like the 60GB model. I know that the 30GB model is super sleek and slim but the four times the capacity would be welcome, especially if youâ€™re adding video into the mix. Besides, it would still be thinner than my 15GB iPod. The 60GB unit also offers greater battery life than its thinner sibling, with 20 hours music and three hours video, compared to 14 hours music and two hours video.

Iâ€™m aware that the three hours video playback time is still short of the four hours offered by the new Creative Vision:M, but thatâ€™s just too thick and is funny looking and most importantly of course, just isnâ€™t cool (he says never having got his hands on one, ed.).

So though the guy next to me on the plane will be watching video for an extra hour than me, Iâ€™ll just be waving my iPod in his face and going, â€œok, the batteries dead, but look at it, itâ€™s so much cooler than yoursâ€. Of course, to really watch video on the move Iâ€™d like a Sony PSP, but it seems Iâ€™ve used up my Christmas gift list. Oh well, maybe for my birthday.